Solid weekend doings around here, solid. A better fall weekend there never was, I would argue. Friday saw me tooling in the hybrid down I-10 solo towards our little pied a terre in New Orleans – I was heading towards the city I hate to love for my annual running of the Jazz Half Marathon. …
Category: Holidays and Celebrations
Bandelier
The following morning, the Professor lights the already-built fire (LUXURY), and we listen to New Age Native American flute music, which is sort of unlike us, but perfect in this context. He reads the local paper – the Santa Fe New Mexican – and I read a fascinating article in Harper’s all about the Buffalo Commons….
To Market to Market
**Edited to add a bit that I had written before and inadvertently left off, added at the top.*** The next day – what day is it? Saturday? – dawns bright and fair, another bluebird morning for your intrepid travelers. After our third blissful morning of coffee and bathrobes on our (private) balcony, we walk to…
Birthday Parties – 2 of 2
When Jack turned three, all friends and family independently bought him Play Doh. Three appears to the be Year of Play Doh. (Four, by the way, is the Year of Hot Wheels and Racecar Tracks.) Along these same lines, Two, it seems, is the Year of the Ocean. I say this by way of explanation…
Birthday Parties – 1 of 2
When Liam turned one, he had pretty much no party. I was living and working apart from my family, staying in a hotel and seeing them only on weekends (or every other weekend). The Professor brought the boys to me during the week of Liam’s birthday so I could see him, and on that Wednesday…